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CONCERNING 



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GOOD WORDS. 

Belfast (Maine) Republican. — Miss Logan was 
complimented by the largest audience of the season. 
Her appearance on the platform is very pleasing. 
She is of good stature and figure, was becomingly 
dressed in black velvet, with open waist trimmed with 
lace, revealing a full white neck. A few ornaments 
of gold and brilliants were becomingly placed. Her 
abundant blonde hair was arranged in heavy coils 
about her head, with a few curls depending at the 
back. A full face, clear complexion, features that 
pass in expression from withering scorn or tender pa- 
thos to rollicking fun, shapely hands and arms, pre- 
sent her as she appeared on the platform. She spoke 
without notes, with abundant and easy gestures, and 
in a clear, well-modulated voice. The subject was 
" Nice Young Men." The lecture was beautiful, 
forcible and eloquent. She is a remarkably gifted 
woman, who has had a varied career, and established 
her fame and fortune by force of hei talents. The 
lecture gave great satisfaction, and the speaker was 
frequently applauded. 

Boston Traveller. — Olive Logan had a great 
audience on Thursday evenmg to hear her lecture on 
" Girls." Miss Logan is so clever, that were she as 
ugly as sin should be (but is'nt) she would captivate 
all with her tongue ; and so handsome that were she 
to talk the most arrant nonsense, we should all say 
she is as wise as if she were the heir of the queen of 
Sheba and King Solomon. 



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Boston Post. — Miss Olive Logan gave her famous 
lecture last evening in Music Hall, as one of the Bay- 
State course. The hall was filled in every part, and. 
very many remained standing during the entire even- 
ing. On the entrance of Miss Logan to the hall, she 
was greeted with cheers from the audience, who 
scanned her with curious interest. She was magnifi- 
cently attired. She spoke for upwards of an hour 
in a varying vein of fact, humor and wisdom that 
held the undivided attention of her hearers. She 
was fluent, never hesitating in any respect, while her 
voice is pleasant, musical, and capable of modulation 
to the sentiment that is being uttered. She lectures 
alike with her eyes and body, and her gestures and 
attitudes are oratorical and striking. That Miss 
Logan should everywhere be greeted with applause, 
and hailed with delight, is only a deserved tribute to 
a lady who has intellect, ambition, personal beauty, 
and a tongue of eloquence, qualities and possessions 
that are exceedingly rare. 

Boston Advertiser. — In person Miss Logan is 
of medium height, with a plump, but good and grace- 
ful figure. She has a blonde complexion and an 
abundance of light hair : and, as might be supposed 
with the added advantages of regular features, and 
clear bright eyes, is altogether a very personable 
woman. Her voice is quite sweet and pleasant, and* 
her enunciation sweet and artistic. She is a good 
speaker. She bears about in her own person, too, 
the marks of a powerful, efficient and vigorous char- 
acter. 

Gloucester (Mass.) ADVERTiSER.—Miss Logan 
is of fine figure, has an intellectual face, is thoroughly 
in earnest, and her peculiar gestures, acquired on the 



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stage, give an air of originality which is quite refresh- 
ing after witnessing the styles which are so common 
with other lecturers. 

Hartford Courant. — Miss Logan's address, 
manner and self possession are admirable. Her 
subject was unique, and the lecture elicited frequent 
and rapturous applause. 

Norwich (Conn.) Advertiser. — It needed no 
prophet to predict a large audience for Olive T>ogan 
last evening. Every one who has a knowledge of her 
popularity here was almost sure that, rain or shine, 
Breed Hall would be filled. She has not changed 
perceptibly since her last appearance here, and look- 
ing back to that time it was as if she was filling a 
second night's engagement. She was elegantly 
attired, wearing the dress that set the Washington 
critics into ecstacies. The subject of the lecture was 
"The Passions." The lecture was replete with 
illustrations, many of them amusing, a few pathetic, 
and given with a tenderness that touched the hearts 
of the listeners. The lecture was more successful — 
it made a better and more lasting impression than 
either of her previous efforts, and the desire to listen 
to her again is even stronger than before. 

Providence Journal. — She possesses transcen- 
dently excellent qualities as a reader, and to hear her 
lecture is to enjoy an entertainment thoroughly de- 
lightful. 

Providence Press. — Miss Logan is fresh, genial, 
sparkling, and almost as witty as one of Beecher's 
sermons. Her stage experience was invaluable to 
her, giving her an ease and finish of manner that are 
quite captivating. 



6 GOOD WORDS 

New-York Evening Post — Olive Logan lec- 
tured last evening at Steinway Hall, on " Nice Young 
Men," to the largest audience which has been seen at a 
lecture this season. The lecture was the second of 
the Mercantile Library course and w^as a brilhant suc- 
cess financially. It was received with almost contin- 
uous applause and laughter. 

New York Tribune. — An intellectual, brilliant, 
handsome woman, talking sensibly and gayly, at her 
own fireside in her own drawing-room — or for that 
matter in any body else's — is delightful to see and 
to hear ; for she dresses vi^isdom in the robes of wit ; 
quickens all that is fine in the minds and tempera- 
ments of her hearers : imparts to life that warm glow 
of enjoyment which l^urns up and destroys the chaff 
of the commonplace in their thoughts ; and so makes 
them happy in oblivion of care. Transport such a 
woman from the drawing-room to the rostrum, and 
she is even more delightful, if she be equal to the sit- 
uation. Miss Olive Logan, who spoke last night at 
Steinway Hall stood the test perfectly well, and 
showed herself to be a diamond worthy of the richest 
setting. Miss Logan is not only a keen observer, 
but she has the faculty of making others see things 
in the same clear light that illumines them for herself. 
If she observes a comical character, she can paint it 
with a few sharp touches, and in speaking she can 
embody and portray it to the eye not less than to the 
mind. Her perception of the humorous element in 
life, also, is remarkably acute, and what she perceives 
" in this kind " she is able to convey, in word, tone, 
gesture, facial expression, and that charm of manner 
which is so indescribable yet so sympathetic and de- 
licious. Her humor is of the right growth, too, for 
it springs out of a kind and tender heart. In satire, 
and in felicity of phrase for the expression of satire. 



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we may add, few speakers are commensurate with 
Olive Logan ; and no speaker whom we have chanced 
to hear puts into the acidity of censure so much of 
the kindness of charity. 

New-York Sun. — Miss Logan spoke an hour by 
the watch, ])ut ten minutes by the sensations of her 
audience. 

Philadelphia Dispatch. — Last Monday evening 
we enjoyed the delight of hearing, from the Hps of 
Olive Logan, the most charming lecture it has ever 
been our good fortune to listen to. Lectures more 
erudite and profound we have heard, but none more 
instructive — none half so entertaining. Miss Logan's 
delineation of character is superb, her philosophy is 
sound, her hope is cheering, and her faith in the 
bright side of everything is sublime. Of all the Star 
Course this is emphatically the " star" lecture. We 
never expect to hear its equal for humor, or for pathos. 
We came away from the Academy on Monday night 
feeling better and happier than we have felt for, years. 

Baltlmore Gazette. — An immense throng gath- 
ered last evening to hear Miss Logan repeat her 
brilliant lecture on *' Girls." This was her third 
appearance before a Baltimore audience, and the en- 
thusiasm of the vast assemblage was, if possible, 
even greater than before. Miss Logan's popularity 
in Baltimore is almost without a parallel. 

Washington Republican. — Lincoln Hall was 
crowded last evening to its fullest capacity. The 
stage was well filled, and even standing-room was 
sold, and chiefly because it was the fascinating Olive 
Logan who was to lecture. The lecture was on " The 
Passions," a new subject with Miss Logan, but one 



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from its immense scope that allows her active fancy- 
to make the etchings deep and clear without cumbrous 
detail or tedious painstaking. Throughout the lec- 
ture ran a vein of humor of that cream and straw- 
berry quality that tickles the intellectual palate with 
a delicate feeling of delight. Our Olive is a decided 
success, and we hope she will soon come again. 

Albany Journal. — None but those who delight 
in nothing but the ponderous would fail to enjoy Miss 
Logan's lectures. 

Troy Times. — Miss Logan is a literary enthusiast, 
reveling in sentiment, wit, pluck, and independence, 
seeking and demanding place and character for her 
sex, and commanding them for herself, by ability, 
industry and careful culture. That she is a noble 
and good woman, we believe ; that she is a great 
artist we know. 

Rochester Democrat. — As a lecturer we think 
Miss Logan is far more entertaining than any other 
woman on the rostrum, an opinion which her bound- 
less popularity confirms. 

Buffalo Courier. — The lady impresses us rather 
as a brilliant, well bred woman of the world, not 
afraid to clothe her thoughts with the modulations of 
voice, facial expressions and gestures of the accom- 
plished actress, but not presuming to lay down the law 
on subjects in which women are not expected to be at 
home. In social circles we have heard elegant and witty 
ladies talk as Olive Logan did last night, and this 
truth to nature, at the same time employing all fem- 
inine arts in oratory, makes her what she unquestion- 
ably is, the most entertaining lecturess before the 
public. 



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Pittsburg Gazette. — She is at home on the stage, 
perfectly composed, and whatever the secret of her 
power, controls the passions and emotions of the au- 
dience as would the truest orator or warmest histri- 
onic genius. 

Cincinnati Commercial. — One of the most 
brilliant writers in our country, Miss Logan, possesses 
a dramatic delivery which renders her peculiar among 
her sex. 

Chicago Times. — The audience was filled with 
admiration and delight at the eloquence of the beau- 
tiful little woman. It will not be denied by those 
who heard her that she at least has proved her right 
to occupy the platform beside the most skillful ora- 
tors of the opposite sex. 

Chicago Tribune. — She is one of those advanced 
women born before their time. She is clever, bright, 
witty, sarcastic even to bitterness. Her shafts fly in 
all directions ; she spares none, and shoots at folly as 
it flies, no matter whence it comes. Her voice is 
clear, ringing, well-modulated, and capable of inflec- 
tion. She has more brains than beauty, yet she is 
not homely. Her form is tall and graceful, and the 
upper portion sways and bends at pleasure. Her 
acting, for she acts, would do credit to any boards. 

Denver News. — From the first to the last sentence 
of her lecture she swayed all by that marvelous 
power of eloquence which she possesses. Her lec- 
ture contained the moral of a sermon, aud the dram- 
atic amusement of a theatrical afterpiece. 

Sacramento Record. — No matter what you may 
choose to call Olive's talk — whether regarded as a 



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lecture, a stump speech, a "parlor entertainment," a 
theatrical exhibition, or any other kind of show, it 
was well worth the money. 

San Francisco Pioneer. — Miss Logan has a 
marvelous power over her audience, exciting it alter- 
nately to smiles and tears, as readily as though she 
had the risible and lachrymal halyards of the audi- 
ence in her hands. 

St. Paul Pioneer. — The largest and most bril- 
liant gathering of the flower of St. Paul society that 
we ever remember having seen at a lecture, welcomed 
the beautiful and brilliant Miss Logan last evening. 
Beautiful and brilliant she surely is, in the highest 
degree as she stands before her audience attired in 
rose colored silk, laces and diamonds, firing off a con- 
tinuous fusilade of pun, epigram, anecdote and elo- 
quence. There were passages in Miss Logan's lec- 
ture which for real, womanly eloquence, we have 
never heard surpassed — while in the matter of artistic 
acting, whether in fun or pathos, we doubt if there is 
a woman before the public as a speaker who can at 
all approach her. 

Kansas City Times. — Miss Olive Logan lectured 
last night on " Girls." The house was densely 
crowded. Attracted by the great fame of the lecturer 
all the seats were taken a week beforehand. The 
fair lecturer abounded in illustration and anecdote. 
There was, however, running through all her discourse 
a vein of serious thought — not brought prominently 
to the front, but never for a moment forgotten — to 
which all her fine periods and sparkling metaphors 
were only intended to lend attractiveness and force. 
Her head is finely modeled, with plenty of Eve in it, 
not broad, rather aiiy and graceful, and is much used 



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in gesture and more in emphasis. Of the lips it may- 
be said that they delight in whispers. Perhaps Miss 
Logan really hates no living woman, and this is a 
great admission. All this her face says, and there- 
fore it must be a rare face, and withal, radiant too. 
Her voice is very frank and soft. She is not properly 
an orator, but as an advocate — one who would be 
generous and tearful, and pleading, and sarcastic, and 
grotesque, and comical, and womanly — she would be 
most potent. As Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire 
she would have given the butcher not one kiss for his 
vote, but a dozen, and then have carried all Clare 
market like a tornado. 

St. Louis Republican. — Miss Logan, speaks 
fluently, without the aid of manuscript, and talks all 
over. She appears to enjoy herself amazingly, and 
has a happy faculty of communicating her enjoyment 
to others. Her voice is clear, ringing, and peculiarly 
sympathetic, and her manner is altogether charming. 
There was not one of the audience who was not de- 
lighted wdth the novel entertainment. 

Louisville Courier - Journal. — The lady's 
manner is strikingly attractive, magnetic and popular; 
she has an assimilative power that brings her strongly 
en rappoft with the audience, and compels them, 
whether or no, to attend closely to what she has to 
say ; there is nothing so evident in it all as its piquancy, 
though she has undoubtedly the faculty of moving to 
tears as well as to smiles. She is as bright as a rip- 
pling stream. 

Nashville (Tenn.) Union. — Masonic Hall was 
thronged last night to hear Olive Logan on " Girls." 
The audience was completely charmed. 



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Knoxville Press. — We do not wonder that critics 
have given us so many widely varying descriptions of 
Olive Logan. We had never conceived it possible 
that we should find so many different presentations 
of personal characteristics in one woman. She is 
truly a marvel, beautiful as she wills to be, and 
always happy in whatsoever delineation of sentiment, 
emotion or passion she undertakes. Her capabilities 
as a lecturer seem to be unlimited, and after ten min- 
utes acquaintance with her, the auditor fears no fail- 
ure in whatever undertaking, whether of description, 
of mimicry, of anecdote, of logic, or of genuine, 
heart-subduing oratory, she may embark. Say what 
we will, she is herself a triumphant vindication of 
her own philosophy. She conquers as she goes. 

Chattanooga Herald. — Fo-morrow morning 
Miss Olive Logan (or, as she is better known in pri- 
vate life, Mrs. Wirt Sikes) will leave Chattanooga, 
where she has enjoyed such brilliant success. The 
half has not been told about this remarkable woman's 
power over an audience. She is a phenomenon in 
her way. And she is a good woman as well as a 
great artist. 

Memphis Avalanche. — She took the fair portion 
of the audience last night by storm, and was scarcely 
less a favorite with the sterner sex In her wonder- 
ful power of mimicry, her vivacity, her grace, and the 
gusto with which she relates an anecdote, she is 
charming beyond description. " Girls " formed the 
subject of her lecture, and it is almost incredible what 
a host of good things she managed to say in the 
seemingly short time she stood before the audience 
Olive Logan has proved to be all, and more than all 
our fancy painted her. 



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Little Rock, (Ark.) Journal. — The largest 
audience ever seen in Little Rock, gathered to hear 
Olive Logan lecture last night. Every seat was sold 
long beforehand, and over three hundred additional 
chairs were crowded into the hall. The audience 
was enthusiastic to the last degree. 

Savannah, (Georgia) Republican. — We never 
heard Miss Logan before, but we were prepared for 
something spicy. This we got, and more. She is 
at once a wit, a philosopher and a philanthropist. 
People never would complain of " women's talking 
in public," if they would talk as sensibly and well as 
she did last night. We only wish we had in this 
country a thousand more just like her. 

Savannah News. — Miss Logan is a woman of 
prodigious industry, and the most brilliant capacities, 
which enable her to accomplish with ease tasks at 
which most women would shrink appalled. She is 
in the first hey-day of her powers. As a lecturer her pe- 
culiar histrionic gifts, inherited from her father, make 
it easy for her to produce the most ludicrous comical 
effects, or the finest bursts of eloquence, while she 
retains a colloquial manner so quiet and graceful as to 
make the listener wonder what it is which charms him. 

Macon Telegraph. — We cannot imagine that 
any one, however depraved, callous, worldly, or self 
opinionated he or she may be, can hear Miss Logan 
without benefit. She is a power in the land, fortun- 
ately for good. 

Augusta Chronicle — For the first time since 

' the building of the city, a woman has lectured in 

Augusta. Miss Olive Logan gave her justly cele- 



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brated lecture on " Girls" last night, and for nearly 
two hours the audience was delighted with a melange 
of wit, wisdom, pathos and eloquence, sparkling with 
anecdotes and set off by satire. 

New-Orleans Picayune. — A brilliant audience 
greeted this accompHshed lady's first appearance in 
our city, and the profound enjoyment she inspired 
throughout the lecture has dealt a fatal blow to the 
local prejudices in which female cultivation and inde- 
pendence have been suffered to droop and die. With- 
out a trace of the repulsive misanthropy in which fe- 
male lecturers generally have indulged, this talented 
woman claims for her own sex an enlargement from the 
shackles in which society has bound up her mind and 
her muscle, aud argues that she should be admitted 
to the dignified and refined usefulness for which she 
was created. In this respect her efforts tend to the 
reformation which is being effected in Great Britain 
by Tyndall, Huxley, Sir William Thomas, and other 
enlightened educators of Europe. Miss Logan's 
qualities, we think pre-eminently fit her for the posi- 
tion she has assumed. Possessed of rare histrionic 
abilities, well drilled in the art of rhetoric, with a soft 
yet full and flexible voice, graceful in her movements, 
and quick in her perceptions of the listener's emo- 
tions, she captivates even the unwilling sympathies 
of her audience, and weaves around them a web 
from which they would not be loosed. 



OLIVE LOGAJf'S BOOKS. 

I. Chateau Frissac : or, Home Scenes in France. 
D. Appleton & Co., New York. Cloth, .$1.50. 

II. Photographs of Paris Life : Politics, Art and 
Fashion in the French Capital. Tinsley & Co., 
London. Morocco, $2.50. 

TIL Before the Footlights and Behind the Scenes. 
Parmelee & Co., Philadelphia. 600 pages, cloth 
$3.50 ; calf, $3.50. 

IV. The Mimic World, and Public Exhibitions ; their 
History, Morals and Effects. New World Pub- 
lishing Co., Philadelphia. (This Work is a Revised 
Edition of the Last Named.) Cloth, $3.75; extra 
morocco, $5.50. 

V. Apropos of Women and Theatres. Carleton & Co., 
New York. Cloth, I1.50. 

VI. Get Thee Behind Me, Satan I A Home-Born Book 
of Home-Truths. Adams, Victor & Co., New York. 
Cloth, $1.50. 



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Christnifis Stories. 

I. John Morris's Money. - - - - Paper, 25c. 

II. Somebody's Stocking. - - _ _ " 15c 

III. The Good Mr. Bagglethorpe. - - " 15c. 

For any of Miss Logan's works, apply to The American- 
News Company, 116, 118, 120 and 122 Nassau St., New York. 



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